LSI 9260-8i

[Serra]

its SAS controller.. its not native sata.. it dont matter if its next generation.. its still soft based+increased access/latency

i dont hate it.. you guys just dont get it.. i thought i was hard in the head but some you just take the cake!!

@ real apps the 1231 still faster.. prove me otherwise.. with your 9xxx you guys should loadup stuff much faster than my 1231 going by your benches and hypes

Man, again - put up or shut up. Opening a bunch of YOUR applications doesn't prove **** about the 1231. How the **** are we meant to compete with that? Open a few hundred apps of our own, then enjoy the fact that it's not a fair comparison at all because the apps wouldn't be the same and the fact that opening applications does just plain place a load on the CPU? Add into that that you have a high OC on your C2Q, and others with (eg.) and i7 would be faster and therefore also unfair? Tell you what, at the very least, re-run the test with your proc clocked down to stock frequency and then re-run the test. If your results are any different for the worse, you lose all right to speak, OK?

Seriously man, tests like IOmeter are used in industry to test production servers by many Fortune 500 companies. Yes, they're "synthetic", but they also actually do what they say they do - namely read and/or write files of various sizes. At the end of the day, that's all real-world tests come down to for storage purposes.